Sharna Burgess and Bobby Bones Say Dancing with the Stars Is Like a '3 Month Marriage'

“We have some rehearsals that are a lot of fun and we dance all the way through it, and we have some rehearsals where we want to kill each other on the show,” Burgess tells PeopleTV ahead of the 2018 CMA Awards on Wednesday. “It’s like we’re in a marriage — we’re in a three-month marriage.”

Though DWTS is coming to an end soon, it’s not the last time Bones will be hitting the small screen. He’s joining the next season of American Idol, which airs in 2019, as the show’s in-house mentor.

“Listen, I do a little bit of everything so they want me to teach them things, what do I know?” he jokes. “I’m exhausted, right? We’ve been dancing for 10 weeks, every day for eight hours a day. I’m delirious. Where am I? Where are we?”

Bones and Burgess will present during the CMA Awards, and Burgess says it’s an exciting moment for her as a “huge fan of country music.”

“I was just saying to Bobby that I’m really trying to keep it cool right now, but I’m kind of geeking out,” she says. “Garth Brooks just told me I look really pretty. I want to see Dan + Shay. I’m a fan of so many artists that are here tonight, and I’m just really happy to be here.”

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